Over the river and through the woods....

Tomorrow is my first Spring trip to my grandparents' house! Every year I anticipate the ease of Spring and Summer country living, in a place so secluded that in order to find it you have to know where you're going, warm and breezy on the front porch, bursts of color everywhere you look. My camera will be my companion on my walks around the yard, surprising the butterflies and spiders and frogs that are usually ignored by us cumbersome humans that bound through their secrets spaces, always with our own agendas that seldom include them. Baggins lives for his trips to Mamaw and Papaw's house, especially our walks in the field down to where the old pond used to sit, before Papaw decided he should fill it, years ago. Mom and I will stroll down the narrow roads, admiring the wildflowers now showing their faces anywhere dirt will hold them, and look for the spots where blackberries will grow in the quickly-approaching summer. I think I've pretty much figured out how to post from my Blackberry (the seedless, digital kind,) so I hope to be making a few short posts along the way. Here's a picture of me and my Mamaw Hildy, the sweetest lady in the world, at my Aunt BB's house at Christmas. She and I have some catching up to do, and we're going to do it on the porch!